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This was my first thought (FF4 on Win7) - looks really bad.

I know a few shops where IIS servers were hidden behind an nginx layer, which would agree with your statement - but does not necessarily mean that IIS is no longer used, just not publicly visible.

You forgot the question mark in the title. Not sure if Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies here, but let's not convert speculation into fact on a whim :)

Minor nitpick - there's a misspelling in the newly posted FAQ: "althoug we'd love..."

Are there any great examples of this besides Steve Jobs and Apple? Didn't seem to work too well for Yahoo.

Total nitpick, but by saying that you are "in the top 80% of programmers" do you really mean you consider yourself in the top 20%? Because if you are in the top 80, there could definitely be a reason why you are drawing such a low salary :)

I was basically conceding that point to the parent, since that is not central to the point I'm trying to make. I personally think that we as humans have ample ingenuity to solve our future energy needs, I just don't want to see a world where accidents like Chernobyl and Bhopal (and their many unfortunate victims) are essentially swept under the rug as a cost of doing business.

Relevant conversation on a previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2374194

Key word there is confirmed. Don't forget this happened in Soviet Ukraine, and the USSR collapsed shortly thereafter, undoubtedly destroying large amounts of records with it.

Besides, this essay seems to focus on the debilitating effect of life after radiation, not necessarily deaths that can be directly attributed to the Chernobyl event.

Wish I could downvote this. Just because we need nuclear energy to survive, doesn't mean you need to demote this massive and tragic accident to a statistical blip made up of "single cases".

Did the sysadmin also forget to create a backup for the repo? I don't think it's a stretch to assume that the developers were somewhat negligent in working on a single repo that can disappear at any time.

Yet another CSS feature IE9 didn't implement to spec ...

Countless as in "we don't have the ability to accurately count" ... "immeasurable" would have been more accurate.

My point was that Hitler didn't directly kill that many people with his own hands, just like Chernobyl didn't _directly_ cause many deaths. But the consequences of that one accident and that one man went far beyond their _immediate_ impact that can be directly traced back. (In hindsight, I should have picked a different analogy ...)

Would you happen to have a source for this? I'm finding it hard to imagine how a study like this can even take place given that there have (probably) not been many survivors among those who have received a dose of 4 Sieverts.

Yes.

- Between 1970 and 2001 thyroid cancer incidence rates in Belarus increased from 0.4 per 100 000 to 3.5 per 100 000 among males (+775%) and from 0.8 per 100 000 to 16.2 per 100 000 among females (+1925%).

- The relative increases in areas with ‘higher exposure’ from the Chernobyl disaster exceeded those in ‘lower exposure’ areas with marked increases in thyroid cancer incidence rate ratios among both genders and in all age groups.

- The largest increases were observed among people from ‘higher exposure’ areas ages 0-14 yr at time of diagnosis, suggesting that a high prevalence of pre-existing iodine deficiency, in combination with unique susceptibility among younger people, might have contributed to potential carcinogenic exposures to the thyroid.

- The magnitude of increases observed is remarkable given the relatively limited time interval since Chernobyl ...

From: http://www.ceecis.org/iodine/04a_consequences/05_nuclear/Che...

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Precisely. Saying that Chernobyl killed only 43 people is kind of like saying Hitler didn't really kill that many Jews.

Yes, I mostly understand the scale of radiation we're currently dealing with in Japan, and it's mostly on the "safer" side. However, my issue is with taking an accident that deformed countless children, caused countless cases of cancer, and in general completely devastated the lives of (hundreds of) thousands of people - and essentially using it in a "How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb" argument to get people to calm down. Yes, there is a level of overreaction any time a nuclear accident takes place (Japan, TMI come to mind), but I wish people wouldn't gloss over the suffering of so many people in order to make their point.

Having grown up in Russia and personally being in contact with a few people affected by the Chernobyl fallout, it's a bit hard to take someone who tries to diminish the impact of that accident to this degree.

Yes, maybe the UN report showed such a small number of confirmed fatalities, but I have a sneaky suspicion that they based it mostly on data collected by the Soviet Union. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't trust any data that came from an authoritarian government, especially one run by a bunch of Russians, especially one that collapsed 20 years ago (likely destroying countless incriminating documents in the process), especially concerning a deeply embarrassing incident such as Chernobyl.

The public may be overreacting to the nuclear threat posed by the Fukushima reactors, but this seems like a subtle attempt at rewriting history.

(I wouldn't be surprised if there is a UN report 20 years from now proving that Saddam Hussein did indeed win re-election with 99% of the vote.)

I got this while visiting Nodester.com repeatedly:

The application is not running.. ECONNREFUSED, Connection refused

Looks like they have/had some issues at their level.

This is quite disturbing to read about the place that tons of companies rely on to host their apps. As EC2 (and friends) grows, it's growing undoubtedly more complex. Combine that with many of the original/senior devs leaving to greener pastures and seems like as more time passes it becomes more risky to host with Amazon. Doesn't really inspire confidence ...

It's interesting that IBM has an animated logo on their current website that iterates through its past logos before settling in to the current one:

http://www.ibm.com/us/en/sandbox/ver2/ http://www.ibm.com/i/v17/t/ibm-logo-anim.gif

I highly doubt that this is Google sanctioned. I think it's some just playing around. (DNS info seems to back up that hunch.)

Based on the number of mentions of the "concerns of the Muslim Brotherhood", it seems likely that the Egyptian people are either in for a) military rule or b) a religious theocracy. I'm hoping for c) a true democracy, but the track record on that is pretty bad in the Middle East.

Is it just me, or are all the charts on the demo page more or less unreadable?

I've used http://www.rgraph.net/ in the past, and it seems significantly more developed than this library.

I can only imagine the confusion the Clyde-Findlay Area Credit Union SEO team is going through right now:

"Why are we getting so much traffic from people searching for 'delhipublicschool40 chdjob'?"

I imagine it's because they want the Google results as input even (and especially) in cases when there are indeed results.

I remember having a similar issue with my company and using FCKEditor in a product before it was renamed to CKEditor. The editor was superior in every way, but something about the name caused the higher-ups to label it as a non-option.

I personally prefer the "remove from friends list" option in such cases.

Fair point. I was not aware the developer was outside of the US. However, I still think their reputation stands to suffer if other potential clients find out that this is their modus operandi when bills go unpaid.